In quite a few places of our code, for various reasons, that I won't go into, we have passwords stored in the clear (it really would take too long too explain, seriously). Anyway, yesterday I used my own password and foolishly checked-in the file, which meant that my password was available for anybody to see.
I deleted the file and checked it back in without the password, but then I checked the changeset and sure enough the file with my password was there in the changeset.
I know that what I did was really foolish for various reasons and it is ironic that it happened to me when I have been complaining to anybody that would listen (not many people) that this was a bad idea.
Anyway, after a lot of panicking and Googling, I was resigned to changing my password (This may not sound like too much hassle, but I have the same password on three domains, one of them is production), when I found this command:
tf destroy /?I ran the following command:
TF - Team Foundation Version Control Tool, Version 10.0.30319.1
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Destroys, or permanently deletes, version-controlled items from Team
Foundation version control.
tf destroy [/keephistory] itemspec1 [;versionspec]
[itemspec2...itemspecN] [/stopat:versionspec] [/preview]
[/startcleanup] [/noprompt] [/silent]
[/login:username,[password]]
[/collection:TeamProjectCollectionUrl]
Versionspec:
Date/Time D"any .Net Framework-supported format"
or any of the date formats of the local machine
Changeset number Cnnnnnn
Label Llabelname
Latest version T
Workspace Wworkspacename;workspaceowner
tf destroy $/myproj/mypath/myfile.cs /collection:mytfsserverurlI would suggest running this first, though, which simulates the deletion process.
tf destroy $/myproj/mypath/myfile.cs /preview /collection:mytfsserverurlI checked the changeset and the file with the password had gone, panic over.
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